Lorraine “raincoaster” Murphy is founder of raincoaster media, specializing in transformative social media training, as well as President Emeritus of Social Media Club of Vancouver, and has been a professional blogger, digital reporter and social media trainer since 2002. She specializes in teaching beginners and those with barriers to internet use, and in social media for social change. Her journalism focuses on Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and hacktivism. She was in charge of Web and Social Media training for the Fearless City project, and her students there included citizen journalist April Smith and poet Henry Doyle . Her flagship blog, raincoaster.com , has been studied as part of the New Media curriculum in three universities, and the comments thread on her Mummified Fairy post has been called “one of the most beautiful things on the internet.” She once got into a flamewar with the nation of Albania , and won. She conducts workshops in the transformative use of social media on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and blogs regularly to many different sites.
Bio from the period BIL record (source).
Talks
- Anonymous and the Tools of Revolution — BIL 2014